Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3)

by Brandon Sanderson

The Almighty can’t have them; he can merely credit them to me when weighing my soul!”

“I intend to so thoroughly ruin this place that for ten generations, nobody will dare build here for fear of the spirits who will haunt it. We will make a pyre of this city, and there shall be no weeping for its passing, for none will remain to weep.”

You talk about your burdens and the difficulty of the decision. What is the cost of a principle?”

‘The question,’ she replied, ‘is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, when you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot pick the destination, only the path.’

“There’s nobody else.”